Young Singers Project at Salzburg Festival

Synopsis

In 2008, an exciting new international opera-singer project was launched in the framework of the Salzburg Festival, the Young Singers Project, sponsored by Montblanc International. Led by world-renowned tenor Michael Schade and soprano Barbara Bonney, a small number of selected young talents from around the world were invited to train their vocal and acting skills for several weeks during the festival season. The "stars of tomorrow" live together, attend master classes with great singers, take part in rehearsals, learn roles from operas being given at the festival – in short, they are invited by the most prestigious music festival in the world to prepare for their future musical career. This documentary records the first edition of the "Young Singers Project," an artistic endeavor that reflects the Salzburg Festival's growing experience and success in providing the stage for the breakthrough of such renowned artists like Anna Netrebko. In this program, the students are briefly introduced by Schade and Bonney, and are shown working with their mentors, including such distinguished master class guest professors as Christa Ludwig and Jürgen Flimm. Their spontaneity and dynamism draw us into their lives; their talent and ambition make us hope that they will soon conquer the world's great stages, such as the Salzburg Festival itself. As the crowning point of the documentary, the program also features excerpts from the final concert in which all eleven young singers perform with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under the direction of Ivor Bolton. Here the festival public was able to admire the artists at the threshold of their international career. One of them, Joel Prieto, won the first prize in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition in 2008, and is thus already on his way to fulfilling his dream.

Additional Info

• No: A045005460000
• Conductor: Ivor Bolton
• Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg
• Artists: Barbara Bonney, Michael Schade
• Production year: 2008
• Run time: 02:00:00
• Director: Carl Plötzeneder
• Producers: Unitel
• Format: HDTV